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[ Keys & Checklist/Picturebooks ] "Thorn-Bush Amanita"
Technical description (t.b.d.) BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Description based on Reid (1980). The cap of Amanita dumosorum is 65 mm wide, plano-convex, pale beige becoming pale straw-colored when dried, with a striate margin. The cap is ornamented with a single, large, thin, white patch of volval tissue. The gills are off-white. The stem is 65 x 9 mm, cylindric or slightly clavate, white becoming straw-colored when dried. The spores measure 7.0 - 8.75 x 6.0 - 6.75 µm and are broadly ellipsoid to ovate. Clamps are absent at base of basidia. Originally described from "open scrubby area" in the state of Western Australia.
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